# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/belinda-wilkes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:54:43.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/belinda-wilkes"
name: "Belinda Wilkes"
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description: "Belinda Jane Wilkes is a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and former director of the Chandra X-ray Center."
tagline: "English astrophysicist"
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birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump